Show Mostv Deadly of Snlflkes i IJ lill tt 1 1 Snakes venomous snakes may be divided di-vided Into two classes the cobras and the vlperolds The cobras inhabitants of distant India form a class apart To the vlpcroids belong I all other venomous species Including our own splendid rattler rat-tler the moccasin the few de lance of the West Indies and the deadly bushmaster bush-master of Venezuela and the Gulanaa Dlamelrically opposite though equally equal-ly fatal are the effects of the cobra and the viperold poison Dlanjetrfcally dpposile alfo are the two methods of I attack The cobra at times Is aggressive aggres-sive the king 1 cobra being said even to I pursue man Silent without the least warning and from a place where you would least susiiecl the round head darts out of a thicket a sharp pain causes you to exclaim and the frightful fangs of the snake are burled in your flesh Like the grip of a bulldog they t 1 I hold fast while from five to ten feet of animated cable come stretching out of the thicket to coil leisurely beneath the dread head For this eternal hold on the victim there is a natural reason The fangs of the tenfoot cobra are but a third of an inch long It Is Impossible therefore lo squirt the venom deep In a single stroke In order to give the venom time to absorb the snake must retain Its I hold The fatal poison contains about 95 per cent of nervedestroying elements ele-ments Within five minutes the pain leaves the wound nnd even the shock of the attack begins to wear off There Is I Illlle suffering nor will there he to the relentlesu end Only If by chance the hlle ls one from a niAll Hiiako or ff a fresh supply of anllloxln happens lo heat he-at hand is there a chancre for your life If one recovers from tho immediate effects ef-fects within a week one Js J as healthy as ever While the poison of the cobra often kills within an hour there have been rases where the strike or a rattle rat-tle snake and a bushmaster have caused death within ten minutes Naturalists accept however that the king l cobra owing to Its great six and the consequent conse-quent quantity and quality of poison emitted Is the most dangerous of all the snakes Tho viper strikes in selfdefense when i I angered or suddenly startled Keen sharp fangs long and slender and I pointed ns shad bones make possible a I quick attack which sends the venom deep Into veins and atcrles within the I traction of a second Coiled with head and forebody extended In the shape of a lettr C the rattler lies The fat wicked body Is motionless and steady as though cast in steel the black beady eyes riveted on the victim Only the tail with Its warning rattles in i performing perform-ing an evolution The attack is sharp and quick Quick as thought the fangs have been burled an inch or more into the flesh The poison Is I qulle the op posite of the cobras containing about Su i per cent of blooddestroying and about 5 per cent of nerved stioylng Clements Cle-ments With all the vigor oC a I sharp acid the venom circulates attacking the walls of the veins and the red corpuscles cor-puscles In the blood and causing untold agony Quick blood poisoning Is the result re-sult and all the cxcruolullng pain endured en-dured by a sufferer from that sickness during a two weeks period la crowded Into the few remaining hours of the J etJm life Inle js the heart action fan be kept up bv stimulants the end l comes within a few hours j The young of the poisonous species deserted from the very first by the parent St t par-ent snakes arc an dangerous an if full i j grown from the moment they enter the world The proprietor of a Philadelphia museum learned this to his cost not long ago In a big glass case partl 1J cloned through the middle by a wire i t screen there lived side by side an clovenfoot anaconda of the constrlc iH I tor family and a colony of cottonmouth I t cotton-mouth moccasins It was impossible 1 for th > moccasins to glide through the j narrow meshes of the screen or even to t venture an occasional strike at their m r large and peaceful neighbor But dur i < j ing the night a brood of young cottonmouths i cotton-mouths unexpectedly appearedbabies not live Inches long They squirmed j 1 through the meshes of UK partition and + tf before they had been two hours in this d world were gliding joyfUlly over the S lifeless body of the huge constrictor I who lao I polsonod by the youngsters ° Jangg McClures Magazine I |